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- Comment on Labor's NDIS reform plan has hit a stumbling block in Queensland 1 day ago:
And yet my father in law berates me regularly for calling the Liberals the party of policy navel gazers and economic retreat. He spent years bitching about Labor being in power, cheered when they lost power to the Liberal shitheels and can never name a single policy that benefits him. I really do wonder if there is a threshold for how much shit these people will take as long as their team is winning.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I always thought the decision was made a lot earlier than that. Wasn’t it largely due to Westinghouse that America settled on 60hz 110v? Where AEG pushed 50hz 220v in Europe? That was late 1800s early 1900s from memory. World war 2 may have resulted in some rebuilding but they rebuilt along lines that were already established, the bump up to 230-240v with time and gained efficiencies is mirrored in the US with the move towards 120v at least that’s what I recall, but I must admit that outside of some Technology Connections videos I haven’t delved too deeply in recent years (and yes I know Alec would say the US technically already sends 240v but that’s not what your general appliances are rated to).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Takes a couple of litres of water before we get hot water. I have filled the kettle twice before the water was too hot to hold my hand under before. That’s roughly 3.5 litres of water just to get to the hot stuff. Luckily boiling water was a key consideration in our voltage level (actually that’s something I made up on the spot 😜) but more power equals good so… Its weird that this is a field that the US apparently just decided to let a large portion of the world be more “powerful” almost expect that if there were parts of the world settling on 240v the US would arbitarily decide they needed 500v.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Different country and all, but both are 240v in my neck of the woods, and since I live on tank water with mains water supply as a back up. Coupled with what I believe may be the most circuitous route from hot water cylinder to kitchen tap on earth (3 meters point to point yet seeming out to the local post office and back based on how long it takes to get hot water out of the tap) we use the Dishwasher to heat our water.
Which is all a very verbose way of saying “It depends on your circumstance…”
- Comment on Australia wants more data centres. A disagreement over power sources stands in the way 3 weeks ago:
Just like radium has (a very few) legitimate uses, so do LLMs. Stop using them as a thought/research replacement and use it sparingly. Natural language processing for instance is a good use. But it should never be feeding that into another LLM to action the speech it has interpreted and taking all agency away from humans IMHO.
- Comment on Australia wants more data centres. A disagreement over power sources stands in the way 3 weeks ago:
I’m comparing LLM based “AI” to radium. The data centres are just the paint factories in this analogy.
- Comment on Australia wants more data centres. A disagreement over power sources stands in the way 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being someone who distrusted radium in 1900. Trying to understand this outrageous desire to shove poison into every product under the sun. Watching people literally brushing their teeth with it. Knowing how horrifically bad it was going to turn out.
Fucking capitalism never misses a chance to fuck people over. In a couple of years time when we are all in the AI hangover it’s going to be curious to see how many people “knew all along” AI was a fantastically bad idea.
I know the data centres can be repurposed for other tasks once they don’t need that density of compute, but what a waste.
Oh and before any sheep start bleating about how it’s just a tool, and you can’t stuff the genie back in the bottle…
Fuck off.
You willingly embrace the cognitive damage machine I will be maintaining my stance of “Fuck AI” and unless you have a background in neuroscience (and can post your credentials) I will likely be as unconvinced by your bullshit as the last hundred of your ilk who have fed me the same shitty rationalisations.
- Comment on Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack 4 weeks ago:
Given the other fucked up things she would do to the country if she got any power, cheap darts will be the least of our problems. If she even does it, rather than promising to and then being told after the election that promise wasn’t actually funded and Gina doesn’t want it, so tough luck.
- Comment on One of Australia's most senior Catholic figures convicted of sexual abuse crimes 1 month ago:
Yeah, but luckily Pauleen has declared Australia a Judeo-Christian nation. So we are going to have fuckhead racist white supremacist scum acting as apologists for the churches. It’s weird how we don’t get to have personal privacy or data security in the name of protecting the children, but they won’t put churches on a watch list don’t you think?
- Comment on Jailed whistleblower David McBride walks free after becoming eligible for parole 1 month ago:
Probably far less for David than for the rest of us.
- Comment on 130,000 people: One Nation clarifies plan for major migration cut 1 month ago:
Yep, sink the country and send us into debt, tank businesses. But on the plus side we get to have another few years of insufficiently taxing billionaires and corporations while they steal all our data and turn the country into a giant network of datacenters that other parts of the world view as warmly as a wet damp fart on an elevator.
All so her “base” can feel emboldened to express the racism that sits at the core of their being like a festering, weeping fistula of pure evil.
What a pack of fucking idiots.